Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:35:38 +0200 | Subject | Re: PATCH: Update for the serial driver. | From | tytso@mit ... |
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:06:49 +0200 (MEST) From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
I've reviewed your patch, and "ported" it to fit into linux-2.2.x. Was it your intention to get the patches into 2.2.x? It sure looks as if it was "designed" with that in mind. Or do you want it to get some testing in 2.3.x first?
Sorry Rogier for not getting back to you sooner; I've been travelling en route to Germany for the Linux Kongress and the Storage and Filesystem Workshop in Darmstadt (where I'm currently sending this message courtesy of Deutch Telecom --- hopefully, if I can figure out how to get through their !@#! firewall.....)
Yes, the serial driver was designed to work for both Linux 2.3 and Linux 2.2. I ship the serial driver in a stand-alone package where you can compile it as a module separately from the kernel tree, and that was the original way that I had assumed people with 2.2 kernels could use the new serial driver. But yes, it can be put into the 2.2 kernel without much difficulty.
There've been a few bug fixes and plus updates for new PCI board to support, so I do want to get some additional changes before I ask for something to be merged into the 2.2 kernel.
Do you want me to help out on some of the declare-mutex macros? (i.e. make the main code read without any ifdefs.)
I've already done that in my sources....
- Ted
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